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2. QUOTING AN OFFICIAL COMMUNIQUE, REUTERS REPORTED
THAT MAJOR EFIGENIO AMEIJEIRAS, DEPUTY MINISTER OF THE ARMED FORCES
AND MEMBER OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE CUBAN CONMUNIST PARTY,
HAS BEEN DISMISSED FROM HIS OFFICES AND IS TO STAND TRIAL BEFORE’
-.. A COURT MARTIAL, THE COMMUNIQUE ALSO ANNOUNCED "THE ARREST OF
SEVERAL DOZEN OTHER OFFICIALS" ON CHARGES OF INDULGING "LA DOLCE
VITA", AN ELABORATION OF THIS CHARGE WAS MADE BY CASTRO IN HIS
13 MARCH SPEECH WHEREIN HE ATTACKED MEMBERS OF CUBAN MISSIONS
ABROAD WHO SPENT SEVERAL MONTHS IN "VAPORS OF PARTIES AND COOD
BRANDY AND IN COMPANY OF PRETTY YOUNG GIRLS." CASTRO ADDED THAT
_ THOSE GUILTY OF “PLAYBOY BEHAVIOR" WOULD BE DRAFTED INTO THE ARMY
—- op SENT TO WORK ON THE FARM,
3. BACKGROUND: THE PURGE BAS BEEN PRECEDED BY THE TRIAL
OORKNXKEQRE ON 7 MARCH BY A REVOLUTIONARY TRIBUNAL OF SEVEN CUBANS
FOR COMPLICITY IN A PLOT TO OVERTHROW FIDEL CASTRO|, THE ACCUSED

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: 4. MAJOR CUBELA WAS A POPULAR AND PROMINENT UNIVERSITY _

STUDENT LEADER, AN ARDENT REVOLUTIONARY AND ONE OF THE EARL

OF CASTRO DURING THE BATISTA REGIME. CUBELA WAS ALSO A CLOSE
FRIEND OF CASTRO AND UNTIL THE ARREST RANKED HIGH AMONG THE LEADERS
OF THE REGIME, HIS ARREST AND ABJECT CONFESSION AT THE PUBLIC

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INCLUDING ACCOUNTS OF REFUGEES WHO DEPARTED RECENTLY FROM CUBA,
TESTIFIED TO THE FACT THAT ANTI-GOVY STUDENT AGITATIONS OCCURRED,
_, WALL SCRIBBLINGS ON UNIVERSITY BUILDINGS TEREATENED CASTRO, ONE
, .: READING: "ONE HEAD PAYS FOR ANOTHER,” ANOTHER READ "OUT WITH FIDEL,"
eo " a 6. BECAUSE OF THE STRONG OPPOSITION TO THE TRIAL, CASTRO
Z _ REQUESTED THE STATE PROSECUTOR NOT TO IMPOSE THE DEATH SENTENCES.
E “ IN ORDER PLACATE ADVERSE PUBLIC OPINION THE TRIAL PROCEEDINGS WERE
: | .. GIVEN WIDE COVERAGE ON BOTH RADIO AND TELEVISION CIRCUITS, AS A

- ' ‘RESULT, CUBELA AND OTHERS GRANTED CLEMENCY.AND SENTENCED TO LENGTHY
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7. THE CUBELA TRIAL WAS USED AS A PEG,I.E., GUILT BY
ASSOCIATION IN THE DISMISSAL AND CHARGES LEVIED AGAINST MAJOR
AMEIJEIRAS WHOSE LOYALTY TO THE REVOLUTION IS "UNDISPUTED" BY
CASTRO, HOWEVER, AMEIJEIRAS WAS STRIPPED OF HIS MILITARY RANK
AND CHARGED WITH THE CRIME OF BEING A PLAYBOY, LIVING THE GAY LIFE.
8. AMEIJEIRAS WAS ONE OF CASTRO'S FIRST PEVOLUTIONARY
FOLLOWERS. HE HAD BEEN WITH CASTRO SINCE 1956, WAS ONE OF THE
SURVIVORS OF THE GRANMA EXPEDITION, FOUGHT IN THE SIERRA MAESTRA
_ IN 1957-58 AND HAD HELD HIGH OFFICE SINCE 1959. IN OCT 1965 HS WAS
NAMED TO THE HUNDRED MAN CENTRAL CONNITTEE OF THE CUBAN COMMUNIST

PARTY.

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MEMBER OF THE SECRETARIAT OF THE CP AND CHAIRMAN OF THE CONSTITU-_
TIONAL STUDIES CONMITTEE, WILL SHORTLY BE BROUGHT TO TRIAL.
SIKILARLY, THE CHARGES OF MALPRACTICES AGAINST THE MINISTRY OF
"FOREIGN AFFAIRS INPUGNS THE LOYALTY OF FOREIGN MINISTER RAUL ROA
" - GARCIA HIMSELF, ANOTHER MINISTER UNDER SUSPICION, 1.B., GUILT By
ASSOCIATION, IS FAURE CHOMON, MINISTER OF TRANSPORTATION. THE
“ENTIRE MEMBERSHIP OF THE 100-KAN CENTRAL COMMITTEE CREATED IN LATE
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10. THE UNDERLYING CAUSE FOR THE “SHOWTRIAL" OF CUBELA,

THE ARREST OF THE DEPUTY HINISTER OF DEFENSE AND THE OUTLANDISH
GARGES BROUGHT AGAINST MEMBERS OF THE CP AND MINISTERIAL OFFICIALS
ARISES FROM THE IRREVERSIBLE FAILURES OF THE GOVT IN THE HANDLING
OF DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL PROBLEMS, THE SCARCITY OF BASIC
FOOD PRODUCTS HAS WORSENED, RICE, ROOT CROPS, MILK, MEAT CONTINUE
TO BE RATIONED SEVERELY, AND THE AVAILABILITY TO TBE CONSUMER 18
- NOW BELOW THE 1957-59 LEVEL, DESPITE SEVEN YEARS OF “COMMUNIST
PLANNING", THERE’ ARE SERIOUS SHORTAGES OF MEDICINE, TEXTILES AND
HOUSING, “THE LATTER HAS DETERIORATED IN URBAN AREAS TO A LEVEL
FAR BELOW PRE-WAR STANDARDS , SIMILARLY, CASTRO REPORTED THAT THE
SUGAR CROP THIS YEAR WILL FALL FAR BELOW THE SIX MILLION TONS
HARVESTED. IN 1965. SINCE SUGAR ACCOUNTS FOR SOME 80%.OF TOTAL
FOREIGN TRADE EARNINGS, 1966 INCOME FROM SUGAR SALES, FACED WITH
DEPRESSED WORLD MARKET PRICES, WILL NOT IN ANY WAY MEET THE COST
“oF BASIC IMPORTS, ESSENTIAL FOR SUSTAINING THE NATIONAL ECONOMY,

. CASTRO HAS SOUGHT TO RELIEVE THE PRESSURE ON THE ECONOMY BY PER-

MITTING THE EXODUS OF soz 40C REFUGEES PER MONTR WHO ARE STREAMING

.. INTO THE U.S. OTHER FAILURES I..CLUDE THE FUNCTION OF THE Goc

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ADMINISTRATIVE STRUCTURE WHICH HAS ALMOST

INTEREST OF ECONOMY SOME 60,000 EXPLOYEES ARE BEING DISMISSED

FROM THEIR JOBS. IMPORTANT BUREAUS ARE DENUDED OF COMPETENT
STAFFS, “ALSO, THE POLICY OF

COME TO A HALT, IN THE

REPLACING EXPERIENCED FUNCTIONARIES
WITH UNQUALIFIED .cp STALWARTS HAS ALSO BEEN EXTENDED INTO THE
ARMED SERVICES,

COXXNUNIST PARTY UEMBERS HAVE BEEN PLACED IN
COMMAND POSTS AND THEIR WORD TAKES PRECEDENCE OVER THOSE WHO ARE
“TECHNICALLY COMPETENT BUT NOT PARTY MELIBERS ,
11. PSYCH EXPLOITATION IN WEDIA:

A. EMPHASIZE POINT THAT SHOW TRIAL AND PURGES
DEMONSTRATE THAT IN THE PATTERN OF ALL DICTATORS, CASTRO GRASPING

AT STRAWS, HOPING DIVERT PUBLIC ATTENTION FROM MOUNTING INTERNAL
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, . D, RAISE QUESTION WHO CAN NOW CONSIDER HIMSELF |

. SAFE WEEN CASTRO IS TURNING AGAINST KIS MOST LOYAL FRIENDS. | !
SIMILARLY, CASTRO HAS LASHED OUT AGAINST COMMUNIST CHINA AND 4 |
YUGOSLAVIA, HIS FORMER ALLIES; 4a

. E. SHOW THAT UNIVERSITY STUDENTS AND PROFESSORS 4

WHO IN EARLY 1965 WERE “PURCED" ON TRUMPED. UP CHARGES OF HOXO- 4 |
SEXUALITY ARE BECOMING ASSERTIVE, SIMILARLY, MILITARY OFFICERS, ;
FALSELY ACCUSED, WILL CERTAINLY RESPOND. THE STUDENTS WITH THE , ze
MILITARY ARE THE TWO POWER GROUPS THAT CAN REVERSE THE TRENDS AS : |

EXEMPLIFIED TODAY IN INDOXESIA;
an " -F, LASTLY, AVOID ALL REFERENCES TO ALLEGATIONS OF _
— coc maT KUBARK INVOLVED IN CUBELA PLOT.

12, ABOVE BACKGROUND AND INFO MAY BE PASSED TO LIAISON.
+. 13, FOR KUTUBE EXPLOITATION:

“°° > A, STATIONS WITH CUBAN INSTALLATIONS AND/OR TRADE

"MISSIONS ARE REQUESTED MAKE MAXIMUM EYFORT ESTABLISH DIRECT OR .
INDIRECT CONTACTS WITH SELECTED CUBAN FORNMIN AND TRADE PERSONNEL
THEIR AREAS. PURPOSE TO EMPHASIZE TO THEM THAT THEIR DOLCE VITA
AND COURTERREY OLUTIONARY ACTIVITIZS HAVE BEEN REPORTED TO HAVANA

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AND THAT TIME HAS COME TO ENSURE THZJR FUTURE THROUGH COOPERATION
WITH ODYOKE. CONTACTS SHOULD BE GEARED TO RECRUITMENT IN PLACE
AND COOPERATION RATHER THAN DEFECTION, SHORT OF THIS, HOWEVER,
SPECIFIC DEFECTION REQUESTS SHOULD ALSO RECEIVE RECEPTIVE EAR,

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